Tobacco-stick



T. H. ELLINGTON.

TOBACCO STICK.

(Model-0 No. 449,469; Patented Mar. 31, 1-891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

' THOMAS HENRY ELLINGTON, OF RIGES DEPOT, VIRGINIA.

TOBACCO-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,469, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed June 2'7, 1890. Serial No. 366,955. (Model) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS HENRY ELLING- TON, of Rices Depot, in the county of Prince Edward and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Sticks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in tobacco-sticks; and it consists in the combination and construction of parts which will be fully described hereinafter, and pointed out in the claim.

The object of my invention is to form transverse grooves or recesses in the top of the stick, so that the wires will catch and be held therein Without having to make the wires of elastic metal and bending them so as to form springs to clamp the stick and thus be held in position.

Figure 1 is a perspective of a stick, showing several Wires connected thereto. Fig. 2 is a detached view of one of the wires alone. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the stick, taken through one of the grooves.

A represents a tobacco stick of suitable length and thickness, and which has a number of transverse grooves B formed in its upper and opposite sides. As shown in Fig. 3, each of these grooves extends upward from the lower edge of the stick at a suitable angle to near its top edge. The two angles formed by the groove meet near the top edge, as shown. Each of the parts 0 is formed of a wire of about No. 13 gage, and which is sharpen ed at each of its ends and provided with a triangular-shaped bend at its center. This bend is intended to catch in a groove in the stick and serve to balance and support the wire in position while filled with tobaccoleaves, and which will prevent the wires from sliding longitudinally upon thestick when itis being handled for any purpose. Owing to the triangular shape of the groove and to the corresponding shape of the bend in the wire, the wire will not become displaced should there be any unequal amount of tobacco upon each of its ends or should the tobacco be removed entirely from one end. As the wires cannot become accidentally displaced after being once placed in position, the sticks can be handled with considerable freedom, and hence can be raised rapidly and readily into position.

While each stick is intended to carry seven wires, I do not limit myself to this precise number, for each stick may be made to carry as many wires as desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-" As a new article of manufacture, a tobaccostick consisting of a stick having a series of transverse inclined recesses, and a series of wires having angular bent portions which fit in said recesses and horizontally-projecting sharpened ends, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS HENRY ELLINGTON.

lVitnesses:

V. C. FALLWELL, RICHARD A. CHILDREss. 

